著者

石井 隆之

出版者

近畿大学総合社会学部

雑誌

近畿大学総合社会学部紀要 = Applied Sociology Research Review KINDAI UNIVERSITY (ISSN:21866260)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.6, no.1, pp.41-52, 2017-10-30

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[Abstract] The notion of religious barriers plays a significant role in dividing many physical areas into sacred and secular spaces. This paper explores a possibility of establishing a new notion of time-related religious barriers formed by language in contrast to the ordinary space-related barriers, by focusing on a popular Japanese expression “Itadakimasu,” which is uttered by most Japanese before they eat. Moreover, I will seek for the logical descriptions of the impacts of words uttered by speakers on individuals’ psychological barriers, which I regard as a form of religious barriers in this paper. Furthermore, the paper also aims at giving principled explanation to grammatical mechanisms found in the Japanese language under the religious barrier-based framework.